Ms Campbell's aunt, Kwementyaye Murphy, had been terrorised by her violent partner for a decade before she was murdered.

"From that day I spoke up. I spoke in language and said, 'You mob gotta stop drinking, and stop the violence, because we're losing a lot of our family members'."

She hoped national newspapers would pay tribute to her aunt, a 36-year-old mother-of-two. She hoped for stories about her "bright and bubbly" personality, her love of family gatherings and the care she gave relatives who came in from the bush to stay with her.

Walter Shaw, chief executive of the Tangentyere Council which services the town camps, says the women's safety group is "re-empowering" people to speak out about the "social ills" which have plagued the town camps for 40 years.

"They're now talking about a lot of issues within community that have historically been very culturally sensitive."